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New OpenAI safety team will have power to block high-risk developments
OpenAI today announced a new safety plan that will give its board of directors veto power to overrule Chief Executive Sam Altman if it considers the risks of the AI being developed to be too high. “The study of frontier AI risks has fallen far short of what is possible and where we need to ...
X rival Threads launches in EU after overcoming regulatory challenges
After already launching in more than 100 countries, including the U.S. and U.K., Meta Platforms Inc.-owned Threads has just become available to the 448 million citizens of the European Union, potentially adding to the woes of its struggling competitor, X Corp. Threads has only been in existence for around six months, but soon after its ...
EU agrees to rules that will give gig workers employee rights
After years of negotiations, the European Union has provisionally agreed to new rules to improve the labor conditions of people working in such jobs as delivery and ride-hailing, potentially affecting millions of gig workers. It’s believed that right now, there are close to 500 digital work platforms in the EU employing about 28 million people, ...
Big tech’s AI leaders team up with the Cloud Security Alliance in comprehensive safety initiative
Some of the largest tech firms in the world have partnered with the Cloud Security Alliance, an organization dedicated to understanding all facets of artificial intelligence and promoting best practices in cloud computing. The CSA, considered the world’s leading organization in this area, today reported it had formed the “AI Safety Initiative,” partnering with the ...
Epic Games wins historic antitrust case against Google
A federal court today ruled in favor of video game giant Epic Games, Inc. in a years-long antitrust case in which Epic has argued that Google LLC holds an illegal monopoly with its Play app store. At a time when regulators and prosecutors are seemingly forever talking about dismantling the power structures of U.S. big ...
Meta’s woes deepen after New Mexico says company failed to protect children from online sex abuse
A lawsuit launched today by the New Mexico attorney general claims that Meta Platforms Inc. and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg failed “to protect children from sexual abuse, online solicitation, and human trafficking.” The suit comes after a yearlong investigation in which the office of Attorney General Raúl Torrez created profiles on Facebook and Instagram pretending ...
Tesla whistleblower says Autopilot not ready, contradicting Elon Musk’s ‘best’ AI remark
A former Tesla Inc. employee said in an interview with the BBC published today that the software powering the company’s self-driving cars is not ready and should not be used on public roads. Lukasz Krupski, a former service technician for the company, says he was fired from his job in Oslo, Norway, when he questioned the ...
Microsoft invests £2.5B in UK with a focus on artificial intelligence economy
The British government today looked to be glowing with enthusiasm after Microsoft pledged a massive £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) in the country to drive the growth of artificial intelligence. Speaking at the location for a new data center to be built in London, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said it was a “massive day in the U.K.’s ...
Google researchers find personal information can be accessed through ChatGPT queries
Researchers at Google LLC recently released a paper explaining how they were able to use Open AI LP’s ChatGPT to collect personal information regarding members of the public. Chatbots are powered by large language models, or LLMs, which sift through massive amounts of data on the internet. The idea is that the model is trained ...
UK study can’t find ‘smoking gun’ link between internet use and mental health
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute said in a study published today that they couldn’t find a “smoking gun” linking mental health harms and the use of online applications. The researchers, whose institute is part of Oxford University, said their study of 2 million people in 168 countries from 2005 to 2022 is so far ...